"If you're a songwriter, being a Korean adoptee, a woman and only four-feet-ten inches tall gives you a lot to talk about. St. Paul musician Mayda's big sound belies her diminutive size.
St. Paul, Minn. — In a crowd, it's easy to overlook Mayda. But on stage, it is hard not to notice her." -Chris Roberts, MN Public Radio 12/14/2007
She has written and played with the Sugar Divas, Jellybean Johnson of THE TIME, Chance Howard of THE TIME and PRINCE, Phil Hansen, Word For Word, the Boy Sopranos (Doomtree Crew), Soul Asylum, and many more. Her music has gained local and national recognition.
After touring in South Korea with the hip hop group Alliancen (Denmark), she has continued to work in and out of the studio. Featured on The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America (MARCH 1st, 2007), Radio K, Channel 4, KARE 11, and mentioned by writer Jim Walsh of The Mad Ripple, Mayda represents a new wave of Twin Cities music.
Recently Mayda completed her first project with Michael Bland's Sonic Matrimony Collective. The
Stereotype EP, soulful pop music done in true Minneapolis fashion, is available at
CDbaby, The Electric Fetus and
Mayda supported her local tv station KARE 11 by writing a tune for their online anchor blogs. They gave her the words and she gave it the smack down.
"Mayda’s EP Stereotype flat-out kills with singing and songwriting that fire up a storm. She brings it from the gut, at times raw as a bad luck, at times smooth as a free ride. Always heartfelt, always dead-on. Soulfully serious. Ask anyone who caught her at what became this year’s legendary She Rock Festival at Pi Bar (Minneapolis). From the song “Stereotype”: “It only takes one look to start shaping your head / It only takes one crook to start sleeping with a bat in your bed / It only takes one brick to start building those walls / and it only takes one hit to make them all fall / I wanna break your stereo / I wanna break your stereotype / I wanna break your stereo / I wanna break your stereotype.” Courtesy of killer producer Michael Bland, the recording’s got the James-Brown-cum-Prince groove nailed to the board. December 13, 5 p.m., Mayda is at First Avenue, corner of First Ave. & 7th St. in downtown Minneapolis on a bill with Heiruspecs."
"Her 'Stereotype EP' has the fashionable beats, hip-hop breakbeats and soulful swirls that you'd probably expect but there's an edge and an anger that may surprise.
The Devil has two Mayda tracks for your delectation 'Stereotype' is funkier than a Prince house party and angrier than bull on the red eye. 'HLLR' is much smoother although she sounds like she's been let loose with a hammer in a scrap merchants yard."
Hi Mayda! I'm happy to see you here. I get inspiration from many of my friends on myspace. And you make me get anxious to work on my music, and get out of my rut.... Thanks!
Since our friends on Myspace are so important to us and we appreciate
all of you, we want to give you a chance to show off your favorite
non-human friend!!! We will be starting an album in our pics section
just for our friends... If you want to add your favorite picture of you
and yours, please email the picture to
AnimalRightsCoalition@gmail.com... We don't want to miss any emails, so
please put "Myspace Pics" in the subject line and please include your
myspace url so we can tag you from our page...
If you aren't
interested in having your picture on our page, but have a story you
want to share with us please feel free to post it in our blog or
comment section...
We would love to hear it... (For example, I have a new rescue here,
sweet little guy that has decided it would be ever so fun to help me
send out comments by walking over the keyboard, and using my hair as a
cat toy.... now if only I could teach him how to enter captcha codes!!!!).
We have a very diverse group of
friends and we appreciate and welcome everyone, and strongly encourage
those of you that are not in our area to seek out an organization in
your area... It is amazing what a difference one person can make...
Thanks to all of our friends for showing us your support!!!!
I just wanted to stop by to say hello and give you a little update on what Blood Root Mother is up to! We will be recording an EP of new music in August, and we recently finished recording a live DVD. The DVD is currently unreleased and I actually just saw it for the first time a few days ago. It features the last two performances with Tony Ellis still alive, and some footage from the tribute show we played on the night of his funeral.
There are some cool covers, as well as some NEW music that will be on our upcoming EP. We're very excited about the new music and we'd like to share a sneak peak with you. Here's a video of a new tune called Run Bobby Run:
THE COAST 2 COAST CONVENTION WILL BE A PROFESSIONAL MUSIC INDUSTRY NETWORKING EVENT FOCUSING ON THE NEW MUSIC INDUSTRY. THE EVENT IS PUT ON BY COAST 2 COAST MIXTAPES IN ASSOCIATION WITH ISTANDARDPRODUCERS.COM WILL BE A DAYTIME PRIVATE EVENT IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NYC AT THE IMMACULATE CLUB TOUCH. THE EVENT WILL BE HOSTED BY J HATCH AND WE WILL FEATURE PRESENTATIONS ON MARKETING, PROMOTION, NEW MEDIA, INDUSTRY ETIQUETTE, PRODUCTION TIPS, MONETIZING PROMOTIONS AND MUCH MORE!
Just wanted to say thanks for being a friend! Have a great day! Come by and see us play at Eclipse Records Thursday July 16th at 7pm. Othr acts are Lollipop Factory, Company Inc. and Ribbons. Stop by our page for more info and a sample of some music!
This
is it! THE show of the year. we are celebrating the release of our new
cd "ANNO MMIX" with a FREE show. we have gathered our closest friends
in CWN ANNWN, URN and RISINGFALL to celebrate with us.
PLUS - we
will be selling metal vinyl, videos, dvd's and cd's from the ROOT OF
ALL EVIL empire! so even if you don't like the bands, come to shop!
this will be the last show til the winter so DON'T MISS IT! It's FREE for fup sake!
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